Senior HR Business Partner

Our client are a leading fashion retailer, looking for a Senior People Partner to join them.
Reporting to the Head of People, the Senior People Partner is responsible for delivering the people strategy and objectives through supporting, coaching and challenging the Senior Leadership team.

As a commercial partner, you will be responsible for driving proactive people intervention across the organisation with a core focus on:
• Supporting business leaders in achieving their goals
• Attracting, developing and retaining talent
• Developing & executing functional people plans
• Driving a performance culture
• Sustainability and improvement

Responsibilities will include:
• Engage and support leaders as a trusted advisor and coach within the business to be accountable for driving high performing teams, and developing their people through clarity of leader expectations and what constitutes authentic and inspiring leadership
• Provide a hands-on approach to plan, action, communicate and manage people and change initiatives
• Assist in delivering the alignment of people strategies with business priorities to enable business performance and the execution of talent strategies to achieve a highly capable and engaged workforce
• Ensure that all aspects of employee lifecycle are effective and in line with best practices
• Partner with leaders on talent review and metrics for bench strength, talent pipeline, talent succession and identification of development opportunities for high potentials
• Be a strong thought leader for strategic People initiatives, able to identify and analyse market trends and advise accordingly
• Understand the learning and development needs of the organisation and partner with the L&D team to secure appropriate training to the Business
• Improve Employee Engagement levels to ensure top talent is retained and motivated
• Line manage a team of 2

You must be an established business partner with experience of partnering a large team in a fast paced environment, retail experience is highly desirable, if not then media, hospitality and equally pacey and dynamic industries. You must have a strong ability to work collaboratively and communicate effectively across all levels of the organisation and the ability to coach and influence at all levels.

This is a fantastic opportunity that offers excellent benefits and a great working culture.
We regret, due to volume, only successful candidates will be contacted.